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100 Essential New England Books

Moby-Dick Or, the Whale by Herman Melville (Boston Globe)

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1615)
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859)
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (1900)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett (2006 Edition)
Yes (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Thomas Bernhard (2006 Edition)
Concrete (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Thomas Bernhard (2006 Edition)
The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About the Hard Life by Flann O'Brien (2006 edition)
Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti (2006 Edition)
Old Masters: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Thomas Bernhard (2006 Edition)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (2006/2008 Edition)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino (2006/2008 Edition)
Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Thomas Bernhard (2006/2008 Edition)
Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel (2006/2008 Edition)
A void by Georges Perec (2006/2008 Edition)
Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie (2006/2008 Edition)
THE LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE LIFE AND THOUGHT IN MEXICO by Octavio; Kemp Paz, Lysander (translator) (2006/2008 Edition)
Maldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont by Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse) (2006/2008 Edition)
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard (2006/2008 Edition)
Impressions of Africa (French Surrealism) by Raymond Roussel (2006/2008 Edition)
Arcanum 17 (Green Integer) by Andre Breton (2006/2008 Edition)
Exercises in style by Raymond Queneau (2006/2008 Edition)
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (2006/2008 Edition)
Correction by Thomas Bernhard (2006/2008 Edition)
House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy by B. S. Johnson (2006/2008 Edition)
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (2006/2008 Edition)
Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
Ulysses by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Sterne (2006/2008 Edition)
Finnegans wake by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
Cigarettes (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Harry Mathews (2006/2008 Edition)
Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Malcolm Lowry (2006/2008 Edition)
The Third Policeman (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) by Flann O'Brien (2006/2008 Edition)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce (2006/2008 Edition)
The confusions of young Törless by Robert Musil (2006/2008 Edition)
The house of the spirits by Isabel Allende (2006/2008 Edition)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006/2008 Edition)
Moby-Dick Or, the Whale by Herman Melville (2006/2008 Edition)
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (2006/2008 Edition)
Nadja by A. Breton (2006/2008 Edition)
The Kingdom of This World: A Novel by Alejo Carpentier (2006/2008 Edition)
Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook) by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (2006/2008 Edition)
The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics) by Fernando Pessoa (2008 edition)
The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier (2008 Edition)
Kiss of the spider woman by Manuel Puig (2008 Edition)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke (2008 edition)
Garden, ashes by Danilo Kis (2008 Edition)
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa (2008 edition)
The Burning Plain: and other Stories (Texas Pan American Series) by Juan Rulfo (2008 edition)
Three Trapped Tigers (Latin American Literature Series) by Guillermo Cabrera Infante (2008 Edition)
The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel by Carlos Fuentes (2008 edition)
The Hive by Camilo Jose Cela Conde (2008 Edition)
The time of the hero by Mario Vargas Llosa (2008 Edition)
The Posthumous Memoirs of Br'as Cubas (Library of Latin America) by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2008 edition)
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (New York Review Books Classics) by Alvaro Mutis (2008 Edition)
The Life & Opinions of Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. HOFFMANN (2008 Edition)

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (2009, Ages 8↑)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999

The house of the spirits by Isabel Allende (73)

ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

The house of the spirits by Isabel Allende (67)

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work

Fable for Another Time: Ferie Pour Une Autre Fois I (French Modernist Library Series) by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (2003)

American Book Award

The Tunnel by William H. Gass (1996)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (1939)
Finnegans wake by James Joyce (1939)
Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Malcolm Lowry (1947)

Asturias Prize

Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa (Letters, 1986)

BBC's Big Read

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 32)
Ulysses by James Joyce (Best loved novel, 2003, No 78)
Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Best loved novel, 2003, No 97)
Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie (Best loved novel, 2003, No 100)
Moby-Dick Or, the Whale by Herman Melville (Best loved novel, 2003, No 161)

Biblioteca Breve

The time of the hero by Mario Vargas Llosa (1962)

Booker of Bookers 25th Anniversary

Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie (1993)

Booker of Bookers 40th Anniversary

Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie (2008)

Booker Prize

Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie (1981)

Booker Prize Shortlist

Impossible Object by Nicholas Mosley (1969)

Borges' A Personal Library

Canada Reads

Prochain épisode by Hubert Aquin (Winner, 2003)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Literary Classics)

Combat des livres

Prochain épisode by Hubert Aquin (selection, 2006)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

Europe Central by William T Vollmann (Fiction, Gold, 2005)

Duff Cooper Prize

James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (1982)

English-Speaking Union Award

Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie (1981)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

A void by Georges Perec (Fiction, 1996)

Griffin Poetry Prize

Eunoia by Christian Bok (Canadian, 2002)

Guardian 1000

A void by Georges Perec (Comedy)
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Sterne (Comedy)
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (Comedy)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Comedy)
Finnegans wake by James Joyce (Comedy)
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (Family and self)
Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Malcolm Lowry (Family and self)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce (Family and self)
Ulysses by James Joyce (Family and self)
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard (Family and self)
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (Love)
Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Love)
The Third Policeman (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) by Flann O'Brien (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Jakob Von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Walser (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The Posthumous Memoirs of Br'as Cubas (Library of Latin America) by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (State of the nation)
Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie (State of the nation)
The Kingdom of This World: A Novel by Alejo Carpentier (State of the nation)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (War and travel)
Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti (War and travel)
Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook) by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (War and travel)
Moby-Dick Or, the Whale by Herman Melville (War and travel)

The Guardian's Text on the Beach: 50 Best Summer Reads Ever

The house of the spirits by Isabel Allende (2009)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

International Fantasy Award

Fancies and goodnights by John Collier (Fiction, 1952)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (Biography, 1982)
Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie (Fiction, 1981)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

Ulysses by James Joyce (2)
Three Novels by Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable by Samuel Beckett (6)
Finnegans wake by James Joyce (10)
Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Malcolm Lowry (14)
In the heart of the heart of the country & other stories by William H. Gass (16)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce (21)
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme (25)
Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie (41)
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (47)
The Cannibal by John Hawkes (49)
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (52)
Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce (63)
Tlooth (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Harry Mathews (73)
The Tunnel by William H. Gass (81)
Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by William H. Gass (82)

The List 100 Best Scottish Books

Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics) by Thomas De Quincey

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Nora: The Biography of Nora Joyce by Brenda Maddox (Biography, 1988)
Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Fiction, 1988)

LOST Book Club

The Third Policeman (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) by Flann O'Brien

Meilleur Livre Étranger

Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti (1949)
The President by Miguel Angel Asturias (1950)
The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier (1956)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1969)
Three Trapped Tigers (Latin American Literature Series) by Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1970)
The Blood Oranges by John Hawkes (1973)
Palinuro of Mexico (World Literature Series) by Fernando Del Paso (1986)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Board's List

James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (73)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (89)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Reader's List

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (62)
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (93)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

Ulysses by James Joyce (The Board's List, 1)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce (The Board's List, 3)
Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Malcolm Lowry (The Board's List, 11)
Finnegans wake by James Joyce (The Board's List, 77)
Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie (The Board's List, 90)
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (The Reader's List, 76)

Médicis

Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (1978)
A Manual for Manuel by Julio Cortazar (Étranger, 1974)
The Harp and the Shadow by Alejo Carpentier (Étranger, 1979)
Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade (Contemporary American Fiction) by John Hawkes (Étranger, 1986)
Old Masters: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Thomas Bernhard (Étranger, 1988)

National Book Award

A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (Fiction, 1994)
Europe Central by William T Vollmann (Fiction, 2005)
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (Nonfiction, 1960)
The collected poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara (Poetry, 1972)
Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series) by Julio Cortazar (Translation, 1967)
Castle to Castle (French Literature) by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Translation, 1970)

National Book Award finalist

Second skin by John Hawkes (Fiction, 1965)
Chromos (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Felipe Alfau (Fiction, 1990)
Nora: The Biography of Nora Joyce by Brenda Maddox (Nonfiction, 1988)
Death on the Installment Plan by Louis Celine (Translation, 1967)

National Book Critics Circle Award

Finding a Form: Essays by William H. Gass (Criticism, 1996)
Borges: Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (Criticism, 1999)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

The World Within the Word: Essays by William H. Gass (Criticism, 1978)
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme (Fiction, 1981)
Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers (Fiction, 1991)
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (Fiction, 1994)
Europe Central by William T Vollmann (Fiction, 2005)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

Castle to Castle (French Literature) by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1969)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1970)
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault (1978)
Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa (1984)
Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1988)
Mazurka for Two Dead Men by Camilo Jose Cela (1993)
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (1994)

New York Times bestseller

Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Malcolm Lowry (Fiction, 1947)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Fiction, 1970)
The house of the spirits by Isabel Allende (Fiction, 1985)
Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Fiction, 1988)
In praise of the stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa (Fiction, 1990)

Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie (2009)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

Ulysses by James Joyce (2009, No. 3)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2009, No. 17)
Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie (2009, No. 22)
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (2009, No. 27)
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (2009, No. 86)

Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino (2003)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (2003)
Moby-Dick Or, the Whale by Herman Melville (2003)
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Sterne (2003)
Ulysses by James Joyce (2003)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2003)

Oprah's Book Club selection

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2004)
Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2007)

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